Bubbles!

Nothing to Disclose

Hello my lovelies!

GUESS WHAT.

You didn't guess. I can tell.

Fiiiiine.

This is my 100th post! I have survived 100 posts! You have survived 100 of my posts! We should drink to this. I'll go get us some wine. I hope you like sauvignon blanc, because I hate champagne.

Kanpai!

Much better. Okay, onto business! I've gotta catch up on my Follow the Devil ABC Challenge prompts, I've been away for a whole three weekends! First up: B, for bubbles.

I cannot lie, I sort of hate these. I mean, the base polish is two beautiful, amazing coats of Teal Another Tail, the polish with which I'm convinced KBShimmer is going to take over the world. Words alone cannot express this polish. If you are in the States, hie thee to the KBShimmer store. If you are in the rest of the world, stalk Harlow & Co for the next restock. You need this in your life.

But then I failed at making nice bubbles (like, I kind of just can't do them??), and stuck some pearls on it for good measure. So now it's gaudy and weird. The little seashell, though, I really like. I got it from The Nail Room, which stocks a small assortment of Japanese nail art supplies right now-- I'm hoping their stock will keep growing, because I will not hide my lusting after some of the creations of Japanese nail artists like @hana4 and @oshimanails (who runs The Nail Room) and @nailsalonavarice. It's so hard to find their dainty supplies, though, and I don't speak Japanese... so yeah... hurrah for The Nail Room!

The pearls are kind of driving me nuts. I'm touching them now and their roundness is getting to me.

Zoom the above picture, you must, just bask in the glass fleck beauty of this polish, just do it!

Polishes used:

KBShimmer - Teal Another Tail

Duri - Rejuvacote (base coat)

la couleur couture - 2013 (top coat)

white acrylic paint

pearls from Born Pretty Store

seashells from The Nail Room

nail glue

Colour blocking for you tomorrow, denim for you on Sunday, and I should be all caught up! Hooray!

~*~*~*~*~* SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TIIIIME *~*~*~*~*~

I have been invited to join The Digit-al Dozen! You'll notice I've put a page up at the top of my blog; it leads to a listing of all the other talented ladies who form part of this beautiful, charming group. Go check out their work, would ya? And I'll have themed nails for you starting October 14th! :D 

xo,

J.

PS: I'm still a mucus machine, in case you were at all curious.

CELEBRATION TIME! Nail Art Contest / Giveaway!

Hellooooo lovelies!

I have reached 1,000 followers on Instagram-- my unending appreciation to each and every one of them (and you, if you are among them)-- and wanted to celebrate! But how?

I thought that, well, nail art is what got me into this delightful, fizzy, exuberant mess, so it made sense to continue the tradition of loving nail art. That said, many IG nail art contests can be frustrating (at best) and demoralizing (at worst). So my solution to this is to have my nail art contest winners be chosen randomly!

Here's what to do:

1) Do up some nail art. It can be anything, so long as it isn't just a plain French manicure. Use your imagination! Glitter? Sure! Striping? Why not! Dotticures? Totally! Fancy-pants florals? Yes! You see where I'm going with this. It can be anything, and your skill level doesn't matter. Just have fun!

2) Post it to your Instagram, if you have one, or your blog, if you have one, or else upload it using a service like Imgur. Just so long as you get a link so that I can see it, because you'll need it!

3) Use the Rafflecopter widget below to submit your information and collect extra entries. The only mandatory ones are your email (so that I can contact you) and the link to your nail art. IG hashtags will not be used for this contest-- only the Rafflecopter widget. Here's the short link for you mobile folks, in case the below isn't showing up properly.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Some important terms & conditions stuff:

- Contest runs from 27 May 2013 00:00 MDT (= GMT - 7:00) to 15 June 2013 00:00 MDT.

- There will be two winners! First prize and second prize, as above. Both winners will be chosen randomly by Rafflecopter.

- I will contact the winners ASAP; if they don't get back to me within 48 hours, I will use Random.org or whatever other means I have to pull new winner(s). Hopefully this doesn't happen!

- Open internationally! However, any shipping above $10 (for the polishes, obviously) is the winner's responsibility; I will send a PayPal invoice for the amount once I know it.

- Must be age of majority or have parental permission to give me your mailing address (only for the polishes).

- No drama! I love each and every one of you, I promise.

I am so excited to see what you lovelies come up with!

Major hearts,

J.